Police exchanged gunfire with a man in a penthouse of a luxury apartment building in South Boston and found two people dead.
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A Braintree police officer was shot Friday night at a Motel 6 by a suspect who was holed up in a room and later found dead there.
Evan Horowitz | Quick study
The state budget is cratering. Blame Trump?s tax cuts Our current budget shortfall is driven by the promise of what President Trump?s team has called ?the biggest individual and business tax cut in American history.?
Flynn was warned by transition team about contacts with Russia Michael Flynn was warned by senior transition team members about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
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President Donald Trump has been sued nearly three times the number of his three predecessors combined at this point during their presidencies.
Evan Horowitz | Quick Study
A political outsider is going to become the next president of France. It?s only a question of which outsider.
Aaron Hernandez to fiancee: My death was ?almighty?s plan? In his final letter to his fiancee before his apparent suicide last month, Aaron Hernandez told her his fate was preordained.
Police officer free on bond in teen?s suburban Dallas death A white Texas police officer faces a murder charge in the shooting of a black teenager after being fired earlier in the week.
Burgess Clark
Burgess Clark says two board members demanded he cut the scene from ?Cuckoo?s Nest.?? He refused.
Ty Burr
?Saturday Night Fever? still walks the walk It?s the film?s 40th anniversary, meaning that we?re getting a digital 4K restoration and a director?s cut, and also that we?re old.
Boston College High School has experienced a sharp decline in applications, prompting trustees to explore ways to reverse the trend.
Driver in Billerica auction crash had suspended license Relatives recalled Leezandra Aponte, one of three killed in the crash, as a woman who held her family in the highest regard.
The removal of the toll booths is slated to run throughout the weekend, finishing at 5 a.m. Monday to make room for electronic gantries that will allow drivers to pay without slowing down.
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All smiles as health care flatlines In this world, what Republicans did on Thursday is cynical, but it?s not necessarily suicidal.
Editorial
Trump order endangers access to contraception Study after study has found that free access to contraception cuts down the number of unwanted pregnancies ? but President Trump wants to change that.
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tech nomad
Thanks to new apps and hardware, handwriting is going digital.
Eliud Kipchoge comes up just short in sub 2-hour marathon bid The Olympic marathon champion did run the fastest marathon ever in Nike?s Breaking 2 event in Italy.
Star slugger Tatiana Cortez delivered for her paralyzed father in a game played in his honor.
Opinion | Michael P. Jeffries
Obamacare repeal is based on racial resentment Racial resentment toward Barack Obama set off a chain of events that will likely cause 20 million people to lose their health insurance.
Summer of ?67
The summer that changed Boston The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.
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The tiny fish that has helped unlock the mysteries of human disease Through studying zebrafish, Harvard?s Leonard Zon has found genes that cause human diseases.
After the Red Sox rallied to tie it in the top of the ninth, Matt Barnes gave it back.
Births are cause for celebration at Franklin Park and Stone Zoos.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is seeking to accelerate its investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election.
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The North Korean government said it had recently uncovered a ?hideous terrorists? group? that the South Koreans and the CIA had sent into the country.
Lois Slemp was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012 and blames her illness on her use of Johnson & Johnson?s talcum-containing products for more than 40 years.
The Grateful Dead frontman?s guitar is called Wolf.
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Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight? ?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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